Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 11
Bless yo' soul, honey," continued the old man, brightening up, "w'en you git ole ez me--w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years--de creeturs dat you can't talk wid'll be mighty skase--dey will dat.
Who acts: you, I, year w'at, de creeturs, wid, dey · What happens: bless, continue, brighten up, see, year, dat · To what, where: yo soul, old man, w'en, years, mighty skase · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, year w'at, de creeturs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soul | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 yo | punct |
| 4 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bless | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 honey | punct |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soul | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bless | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brightening | punct |
| 14 | brightening | brighten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 continued | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 brightening | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 w'en | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 w'en | punct |
| 18 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brightening | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ole | nsubj |
| 20 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ole | compound |
| 21 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 w'en | amod |
| 22 | ez | ez | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 me | nsubj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ole | ccomp |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 25 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bless | advcl |
| 28 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 sees | nsubj |
| 30 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 w'at | punct |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 year | compound |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 w'at | compound |
| 34 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 years | nsubj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 years | nsubj |
| 36 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bless | parataxis |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 dat | punct |
| 38 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 creeturs | compound |
| 39 | creeturs | creetur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 dat | nsubj |
| 40 | dat | dat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 years | acl:relcl |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 talk | nsubj |
| 42 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 talk | aux |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 talk | advmod |
| 44 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 dat | ccomp |
| 45 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 skase | nsubj |
| 46 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 skase | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 skase | cop |
| 48 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 skase | amod |
| 49 | skase | skase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 talk | obl |
| 50 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 53 dat | punct |
| 51 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 dat | nsubj |
| 52 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 dat | aux |
| 53 | dat | dat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 skase | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | imperative | you not said here | yo soul and honey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | the old man | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 3 | brighten up in a quote | gerund | w'en | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | see | present | you | w'en | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | year | year w'at | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | dat | present | de creeturs | years not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not talk | can | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is a | future | wid | mighty skase | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | dat | future | dey | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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